This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second East European Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information systems, ADBIS '98, held in Poznan, Poland in September 1998.
The 25 revised full papers presented were selected from a total of 90 submissions and six extended abstracts within a special section. "East meets West." The papers are organized in topical sections on query languges, optimization, collaborative systems, schema integration, storage and version management, object systems, knowledge discovery and the Web, and systems design.

This is the latest in a series of proceedings of conferences on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics. The purpose of the series is to bring together mathematicians and theoretical computer scientists who share the common interests of working on problems related to programming language semantics. The purpose of the book is to bring into print as quickly as possible papers which reflect the state of research on the topics comprising this area. The intended audience for the book consists of those researchers and graduate students with an interest in the research areas which are...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 10 international workshops held in conjunction with the merged 1998 IPPS/SPDP symposia, held in Orlando, Florida, US in March/April 1998. The volume comprises 118 revised full papers presenting cutting-edge research or work in progress.
In accordance with the workshops covered, the papers are organized in topical sections on reconfigurable architectures, run-time systems for parallel programming, biologically inspired solutions to parallel processing problems, randomized parallel computing, solving combinatorial optimization problems in...

The modern development of medicine has been characterized by the grow ing use of new technologies in health care delivery and research. As an empirical science, medicine is based on many types and quantities of information to recognize alterations, explore causes and apply cor rective action. Dealing with biological objects, signals have to be collected, processed and interpreted to recognize the state of this object. It is therefore understandable that data processing technology and informatics have been employed to a growing extent in medicine. The increasing economic repercussions of...

EUROCRYPT '95. Sponsored by the International Association for Cryp- logic Research (IACR), in cooperation with the Centre Commun d'Etudes de T616vision et T61Qcommunications (CCETT), a workshop on the theory and - plications of cryptographic techniques takes place at the Palais du Grand Large, Saint Malo, France, May 21-25, 1995. The General Chair of EUROCRYPT '95 is Franqoise Scarabin. The Or- nization Committee was helped by Maryvonne Lahaie and her communication team. Moreover, the CCETT has generously provided the help of a young - glish lady, Miss Virginia Cooper, for the secretariat of...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption, FSE '98, held in Paris, France, in March 1998. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 39 submissions. The volume is divided in topical sections on cryptanalysis, new stream ciphers, design construction analysis, hash functions, pseudo-random generators, new block ciphers, and modes of operation.

Die Abschatzungen flir den Rundungsfehler bei den elementaren Festpunktoperationen stammen aus der Arbeit 18] tiber Inver tierung von Matrizen von V. NEUMANN und GOLDSTINE. Die Be zeichnungsweise und die methodischen Prinzipien dieser Arbeit wurden von mehreren Verfassern tibernommen. Von diesen ver dient GIVENS besondere Erwahnung aufgrund seiner Fehlerunter suchungen zu GIVENS' Verfahren zur Bestimmung der Eigenwerte einer reellen symmetrischen Matrix 8]' Die Abschlitzungen flir den Fehler bei Gleitpunktoperationen benutzte der Verfasser erstmals 1957 in ungefahr der Form, welche auch...

This text constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques. The 34 revised full papers included were carefully selected from a total of 104 submissions. The papers addresses issues such as the booming area of research and development in cryptology and advances in application areas including security and privacy, digital communication, and electronic commerce.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 19th annual International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets. The aim of the Petri net conference is to create a forum for the dissemination of the latest results in the application and theory of Petri nets. It always takes place in the last week of June. Typically there are 150 - 200 participants. About one third of these come from industry while the rest are from universities and research institutions. The conferences and a number of other activities are coordinated by a steering committee with the following members: G. Balbo...

Starting from the intraprocedural basic case, this monograph focuses on interprocedural optimization. It emphasizes the analogies and essential differences between intraprocedural and interprocedural optimization, and offers cookbook style support for constructing the underlying algorithms. It is aimed at compiler constructors and researchers interested in the systematic transfer of intraprocedural optimizations to the interprocedural setting, as well as students seeking a gentle introduction to the field.